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Person/Group Name Exile Date Sent From Went To Returned Previous Office Relationships Sources
Aetius of Antioch
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from: 358 to: 362 Alexandria [Alexandria] Pepouza [unknown] yes deacon Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 4.8, 11-12; 5.1-2; 6.7 (GCS) Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.23 (PG 1038-9)
Agelius
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from: 366 to: 366 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] yes bishop Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 4.9 (NPNF) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.9 (NPNF)
Ammonius of Pacnemunis
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from: 358 to: 362 Pachnamounis [Kom el-Khanziri] Oasis Magna/Thebaidos [El-Kharga] yes bishop Athanasius, historia Arianorum 72 (PG 25:780); Athanasius, de fuga 7 (PG 25:653); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.14 (SC 501:394)
Anastasius of Antioch
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from: 570 to: 593 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] yes bishop Theophanes, AM 6062, 6087 (de Boor, 243, 272) Gregorius Magnus, epistula 1.7, 25, 26, 28; 5.39; 7,27, 33; 8.2 (CCSL 140)
Antiochus (presbyter)
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from: 373 to: 379 Armenia [Armenia] yes presbyter
Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.15.8 (SC 530:238)
Arius
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from: 333 to: 335 Alexandria [Alexandria] yes unknown Opitz, Urkunde 33/28, 34/27 See T. Barnes, 'The Exiles and Recalls of Arius', Journal of Theological Studies 60 (2009), 109-129
Athanasius
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from: 339 to: 346 Alexandria [Alexandria] yes bishop TRE, s.v. Athanasius Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium Athanasius, apologia secunda Athanasius, indices epistularum festialium 17 (SC) Socrates, Historia ecclesiastica, 4.23
Athanasius
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from: 357 to: 362 Alexandria [Alexandria] Aegyptus [Egypt] yes bishop Gregorius of Nazianzus, oratio 21.20 Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 29.3 Athanasius, historia Arianorum 53ff. Ammianus Marcellinus 22.5.3 Historia Acephala 4.1-4 Palladius, historia Lausiaca 63 Festal Index 28, 30, 32 (SC 317: 257-61) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 5.6
Athanasius
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from: 362 to: 363 Alexandria [Alexandria] yes bishop Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 3.14
Athanasius
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from: 365 to: 366 Alexandria [Alexandria] yes bishop Historia Athanasii 16-17 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 4.13 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.12
Bonifatius of Rome (PCBE 2, Bonifatius 3, 318-19)
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from: 419 to: 419 Roma [Rome] yes bishop collectio Avellana 16, 18 (CSEL 35.1:61-5) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/60/mode/2up Liber Pontificalis 44 (Duchesne I:89-92) https://archive.org/stream/bookofpopesliber00loom#page/88/mode/2up
Bretannio of Tomi
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from: 376 to: 376 Tomis [Dobruja] yes bishop Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.21 (NPNF)
Caesarius of Arles (PCBE 4, Caesarius 1, 386-410)
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from: 505 to: 505 Col. Arelate [Arles] Burdigala [Bourdeaux] yes bishop Vita Caesarii 1.21 Caesarius, epistula 4
Cyrillus of Jerusalem
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from: 357 to: 359 Ierusalem [Jerusalem] Tarsus [Tarsus] yes bishop Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.22 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.40 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.22 Michael Syrus 7.8 (Chabot 1:309)
Cyrillus of Jerusalem
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from: 366 to: 378 Ierusalem [Jerusalem] yes bishop Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 5.2 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 5.2 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.12, 7.1
Dorotheus of Antioch
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from: 380 to: 388 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Thracia [Thrace] yes bishop Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.19
Eugenius of Carthage (PCBE Eugenius 2)
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from: 484 to: 487 Carthago [Carthage] Turris Tamalleni [Telmine] yes bishop Victor of Vita, historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae 3.34, 42-44 (CSEL 7:89). Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae, ed. C. Halm, Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae, MGH, AA, III.I (Berlin, 1879), pp.63-71, 1. Gennadius, De Viris Illustribus, 97. Victor of Tunnuna, chronica, a.479. Laterculus regum Vandalorum et Alanorum, ed. T. Mommsen, MGH ASA 13, Chronica Minora 3 (Berlin: 1898), pp.456-60, Augiensis 5:8.
Eulalius (PCBE 2, Eulalius 2, 680-81)
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from: 419 to: 423 Roma [Rome] Campania [Campania] no bishop
collectio Avellana 31-7 (CSEL 35.1:77-84) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/76/mode/2up Liber Pontificalis 44 (Duchesne I:89-92) https://archive.org/stream/bookofpopesliber00loom#page/88/mode/2up
Eulogius
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from: 373 to: 379 Edessa [Şanlıurfa] Antinoopolis [El Sheikh Ibada] yes presbyter Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.18 (SC 530:248)
Eusebius of Nicomedia
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from: 326 to: 328 Nicomedia [İzmit] Gaul [France] yes bishop Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 1.9-10, 2.7; Gelasius of Cyzicus, historia ecclesiastica I.11 (GCS NF 9:18-25); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 1.19 (NPNF); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 1.14 (NPNF); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 2.16 (NPNF), 3.19.3; Opitz, Urkunde 27.16, 36 (Opitz, 125-6, 129);
Eutychius of Constantinople
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from: 565 to: 577 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Monastery of Choracudis [n/a] yes bishop Vita S Eutychii Patriarchae 38-71 (PG 86:2317-56) Theophanes, AM 6057 (de Boor 240) Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 566 (MGH 11:205)
Hilarius of Poitiers (PCBE 4, Hilarius 1, 989-97)
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from: 356 to: 360 Limonum/Pictavi [Poitiers] Phrygia [Central Anatolia] yes bishop Hilarius of Poitiers, liber contra Auxentium 7 (PL 10:614); Hilarius of Poitiers, ad Constantium 2.1-2 (CSEL 65:197-8); Hilarius of Poitiers, in Constantium 2 and 12-15 (SC 334:170 and 192-8); Hilarius of Poitiers, de synodis 1-2, 8 and 63 (PL 10:479-81, 485 and 522-3); Hilarius of Poitiers, de trinitate 1-3, 4.1 and 10.4 (SC 443:202-386, SC 448:12 and SC 462:178); Hilarius of Poitiers, Fragmentum historiarum A.5-9, B.3.2, B.7.1-2, B.7.5-11 and B.8.1-2 (CSEL 65:78-97, 155-6, 164-73 and 174-7); Venantius Fortunatus, vita s. Hilarii 6 (MGH auct. ant. 4.2:3); Hieronymus, chronica, ann. 356 (Jeanjean-Lancon, 92); Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 100 (Ceresa-Gastaldo, 204); Hieronymus, altercatio Luciferiani et orthodoxi 19 (CCSL 79B:48-9); Faustinus et Marcellinus, libellus precum 24 (SC 504:130); Prosper of Aquitaine, chronica 1096 (ann. 356) (MGH auct. ant. 9:455); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.14.41, 4.12.6 and 4.22 (SC 418:138, 242 and 300-312); Sulpicius Severus, chronica 2.42 and 2.45.2-3 (SC 441:322 and 330); Sulpicius Severus, vita Martini 6.7 and 7.1 (SC 133:266); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.39-40 (SC 493:200-216); Epistula ab episcopis Gallicanis ad orientales episcopos 1-4 (CCSL 148:33-4);
Ibas of Edessa
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from: 449 to: 451 Edessa [Şanlıurfa] 20 different prisons, including one in Antioch [n/a] yes bishop ACO 2.1:376, 2.5:117; Sacrosancta Concilia (Labbe) 4:634, 891, 917; Chronica Edessena LXVIII; Barhadbessaba Arbaia (Nau, PO 9, Fasc. 5); Acta Synodis Ephesinae IIB (Akten der ephesinischen Synode vom Jahre 449) , ed. J. Flemming, Berlin 1917, p. 21-69
Irenaeus (PLRE 2, Irenaeus 2, 624-5)
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from: 435 to: 445 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Petra [Petra] yes n/a ACO I.4:203 nos. 277-8
Iulius of Rome
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from: 339 to: 340 Roma [Rome] yes bishop Liber Pontificalis 36 (Duchesne I:205) https://archive.org/stream/duchesne01/duchesne1#page/n495/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/bookofpopesliber00loom#page/72/mode/2up
Liberius of Rome (PCBE 2, Liberius 1, 1297-8)
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from: 356 to: 358 Roma [Rome] Beroe [Stara Zagora] yes bishop ICUR, NS 9, 24831 Hilarius of Poitiers, coll. Antiar. Paris., B VII (CSEL 65:164-73) Eusebius of Vercelli, epistula 2.4.2 (CCSL 9:106) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.11 and 15 (NPNF) Theoderetus, historia ecclesiastica 2.17 (SC 501:412). Ammianus Marcellinus 15.7.6-10 Gesta inter Liberium et Felicem, collectio Avellana 1-3 (CSEL 35.1:1-2) Rufinus, historia ecclesiastica 10.23 and 28 (Mommsen, 988 and 990-91) Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.37.91-4 Liberius, epistula 3.1 (CCSL 9:123) Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 97 (TU 14.1:47) Athanasius, historia Arianorum 36-41 (Opitz 2.1:203-6) Athanasius, apologia contra Arianos 89 Liber Pontificalis 37 (MGH Gesta pontificum Romanorum 1:77-9) CLE 00787 = ICUR-09, 24831 (p 389) = ILCV 00967 (em) = AE 2007, +00127 Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 4.3
Lucius of Adrianopolis
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from: 343 to: 344 Hadrianopolis [Tadmur] yes bishop Athanasius, historia Arianorum 19.1 Athanasius, de fuga 3.3 Athanasius, apologia secunda 43.2 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.15, 23 (NPNF) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.8, 24 (NPNF)
Mar Aba I
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from: 544 to: 551 Ctesiphon [Al-Mada'in] Adurbadagan [Iranian Azerbaijan] yes bishop J.B. Chabot (ed.), Synodicon orientale ou recueil de synodes nestoriens (Paris: 1902), p. 318-19, 353 https://archive.org/stream/ChabotSynodiconOrientale/chabot%20synodicon%20orientale#page/n375/mode/2up P. Bedjan (ed.), Histoire de Mar Jabalaha et des trois autre patriarches (Paris: 1895), p. 206-274 https://archive.org/stream/HistoireDeMarJabAlaha/Histoire_de_Mar_Jab_alaha#page/n239/mode/2up
Marcellus (PCBE 4, Marcellus 4, 1241-1243)
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from: 476 to: 478 Col. Dea Vocontiorum [Die] Col. Arelate [Arles] yes bishop Vita Marcelli; F. Dolbeau, ‘La vie en prose de saint Marcel évêque de Die. Histoire du texte et édition critique’, Francia 11 (1983) pp.97-130
Maris of Chalcedon
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from: 326 to: 328 Chalcedon [Kadiköy] Gaul [France] yes bishop Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 2.7
Maximus of Constantinople
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from: 373 to: 378 Alexandria [Alexandria] Oasis Magna/Thebaidos [El-Kharga] yes unknown Gregorius of Nazianzus, oratio 25.13-14 (PG 35:1216-1217)
Meletius of Antioch
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from: 361 to: 362 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] yes bishop Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.44, 3.9 (NPNF) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.28 (NPNF)
Meletius of Antioch
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from: 371 to: 378 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Armenia [Armenia] yes bishop Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 5.5 (NPNF) Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.12-13 (NPNF)
Meletius of Antioch
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from: 365 to: 371 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] yes bishop Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.28, 6.31 (NPNF)
Osius of Cordoba
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from: 355 to: 357 Corduba [Córdoba] Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica] yes bishop Athanasius, historia Arianorum 42-6 (Opitz 2.1:206-10) Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 27 (SC 56:118-9) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.15 (NPNF) Collectio Avellana, epistula 2.32-5 (CSEL 35.1:15) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/14/mode/2up
Parmenianus (PCBE 1, Parmenianus, 816)
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from: 362 to: 362 yes bishop Optatus 2.17 (p. 51)
Paulus of Constantinople
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from: 342 to: 344 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] yes bishop Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.13 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.7 Athanasius of Alexandria, historia Arianorum 275 (1.7 NPNF) Mansi, concilia i. 1275 Photius, bibliotheca 257 (Bekker, 474-7) https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecaexrec00photuoft#page/474/mode/2up
Paulus of Edessa
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from: 519 to: 519 Edessa [Şanlıurfa] Seleucia [Babil Governorate] yes bishop Chronicum Edessenum 89-92 (CSCO Scr. Syr. 3.4,1903: 9-10) https://archive.org/stream/chronicaminorapa00guid#page/8/mode/2up Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518, 525-526 (Harrak, 51, 55)
Paulus of Edessa
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from: 522 to: 526 Edessa [Şanlıurfa] Euchaita [Beyözü] yes bishop Zacharias, historia ecclesiastica 8.4 (CSCO 84:75, 88:51) Chronicum Edessenum 89-92 (CSCO Scr. Syr. 3.4,1903: 9-10) https://archive.org/stream/chronicaminorapa00guid#page/8/mode/2up
Pelagius of Rome (PCBE 2, Pelagius 3, 1710-16)
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from: 554 to: 556 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] yes other Pelagius, epistula 80.2 (Gassò and Batlle: 197) Pelagius, In defensione trium capitulorum 4 and 6 (Studi e Testi 57: 32, 67, 68).
Petrus Fullo
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from: 471 to: 476 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Oasis Magna/Thebaidos [El-Kharga] yes bishop Gelasius, Gesta de nomine Acacii (CSEL 35, n. 99: 440 and 450); Liberatus, Breviarum 17 (ACO 2.5: 130); Theodorus (Anagnostes) Lector, historia ecclesiastia 392 (GCS 53:110); Theophanes, AM 5967
Petrus Mongus
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from: 477 to: 482 Alexandria [Alexandria] Euchaita [Beyözü] yes bishop Theodorus (Anagnostes) Lector, historia ecclesiastica 422-4 (GCS n.F. 3: 117); Theophanes, AM 5976 (de Boor 130); Collectio Avellana, epistula 70.4 (CSEL 35.1:156-7) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/156/mode/2up
Petrus of Alexandria
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from: 373 to: 373 Alexandria [Alexandria] yes bishop Severus of Hermopolis, historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorum 2.9 (translated by Evetts) http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/severus_hermopolis_hist_alex_patr_02_part2.htm#PETER_II Hieronymus, epistula 127.5; Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.21-22; Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.19.6; Gregorius of Nazianzus, oratio 25.12, 33.3, 43.46;
Protogenes
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from: 373 to: 379 Edessa [Şanlıurfa] Antinoopolis [El Sheikh Ibada] yes presbyter Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.18 (SC 530:248)
Sagittarius of Gap
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from: 567 to: 567 Lutetia [Paris] unknown monastery [n/a] yes bishop Gregorius of Tours, historiae 5.20 (MGH SS rer. Merov. 1.1:227-9)
Salunius of Embrun
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from: 567 to: 567 Lutetia [Paris] unknown monastery [n/a] yes bishop Gregorius of Tours, historiae 5.20 (MGH SS rer. Merov. 1.1:227-9)
Sidonius Apollinaris (PLRE 2, Apollinaris 6; PCBE 4, Sidonius 1)
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from: 475 to: 476 Augustonemetum [Clermont-Ferrand] Liviana [Douzens] yes bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, epistula 4.10, 4.17, 4.22, 7.16, 8.3, 8.9 and 9.3
Simplicius of Bourges (PLRE 2, Simplicivs 9, 1015-16 / PCBE 4, Simplicius 7)
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from: 472 to: 472 Avaricum/Biturigae [Bourges] yes bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, epistula 7.6.9
Stephanus of Cyprus
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from: 565 to: 577 Cyprus [Cyprus] Plataea [Platees] yes bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 1.16, 2.3 (NPNF)
Theognis of Nicaea
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from: 326 to: 328 Nicaea [Iznik] Gaul [France] yes bishop Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 1.9, 2.7; Gelasius of Cyzicus, historia ecclesiastica I.11 (GCS NF 9:18-25); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 1.19 (NPNF); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 1.14 (NPNF); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 2.16 (NPNF), 3.19.3; Opitz, Urkunde 27.16, 36 (Opitz, 125-6, 129);
Timotheus Aelurus of Alexandria
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from: 454 to: 457 Alexandria [Alexandria] Taposiris [Alexandria] yes bishop Iohannes Rufus, Vita Petr. Ib. 92 (edited by C. B. Horn & R. R. Phenix Jr., John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus, Atlanta 2008, 5-281)
Timotheus Basilicus (Salophacialus)
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from: 476 to: 477 Alexandria [Alexandria] Canopus [Aboukir] unknown bishop
Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 3.11 (SC 542:412) Liberatus, Breviarium 16 Theophanes, AM 5967 (de Boor 121)
Ursicinus of Rome
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from: 366 to: 367 Roma [Rome] yes bishop collectio Avellana 1.11, 5 (CSEL 35.1:4, 48) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/48/mode/2up Ammianus Marcellinus 27.3.12-13, 27.9.9 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 2.23 (NPNF)
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